THE SWANS - WHY NO CURRENT POLITICIANS REPRESENT US?
For Women Squeezed Middle Income Biggest Losers on Jobs, Tax and Credits for Kids. For Working Poor including Half Women 60-66 Lost State Pension. For All Losing Benefits No Other Income Chance especially disabled/chronic sick. For the Starving only Fed 3 times in a year.

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

The End of Starvation in UK - Feed All Every Day Hot Meal and Hot Drink Today

STARVATION IS THE REALITY OF WELFARE AND PENSION REFORM IN ENGLAND TODAY

Welfare Reform began under Labour back in 2015, who brought in Atos and invented the Bedroom Tax.

The need for Food banks began to rise back in 2005.

WHAT ARE FOOD BANKS?

Food Banks are not provided by the government or councils.

The government devolved the Social Fund budgets to councils, who absorbed the funding into general council budgets, telling the starving to go to charitable food banks. This has now back-fired.

Food Banks are provided by charities, mostly churches, and staffed by volunteers.

A university professor described food banks as a sticking plaster over a gaping wound, in the Panorama programme on food banks on Monday, 3 March 2014.

WHY ARE FOOD BANKS GROWING SO FAST TODAY?

Welfare Reform sanctions those on benefit for weeks or even months at a time, and can, indeed, sanction off all income for three years.

This means hundreds of thousands of people being left, weeks or even months with no funds, and then found to have been wrongly sanctioned.

But what of those, who cannot get back on benefit? These are then left to starve forever.

Youth homelessness at an all time high, and great rise in bin-dipping for food, recently failed to be prosecuted as a case law precendent.

But why grovel in the rubbish for food, when it could go to the starving direct with public hygiene?

WHO ARE THE POOR GOING TO FOOD BANKS?

As one food bank manager observed, if sanctioned, why leave these people to starve?

The belief is that welfare and benefit only means unemployed people, from disadvantaged backgrounds, alcoholics, etc.

This view is decades out of date, because in old English half a century back, welfare was only meant to mean the dole, the line of people waiting for poor relief when out of work.

Only 3% of the benefits bill goes on unemployment today.(Source Dame Anne Begg,Chairwoman Commons Select Committee on Works and Pensions,who otherwise could not care less about pensioners,nor her fellow women losing state pension at 60,when women MPs kept the pension payout (and thus state and works pension payout)if within 10 years of that age.)

Half the benefits bill goes to people in work.

The other half to pensioners.

The disabled and chronic sick, who can be over 60, are also too easily sanctioned off benefit or never gain benefit.

The Bedroom Tax and cap on housing benefit hits people in work and takes away their food money.

A third of Londoners are within the working poor, for example, with wages flat-lined back to the level of salaries back in 2002.

Over 13 million people struggle to make ends meet each day in the UK today.

One reason, is that the half of women aged 60-66 that are within the working poor, have lost state pension payout of state pension at 60, which is up to around £6,300 a year of lost income:

- Farmers can have soup kitchens in their farm produce shops, to people with sanction letters and donate misshaped fruit and vegetables to low income pensioners / housebound disabled / chronic sick in the village.

- End Income Tax and National Insurance for employer and staff, so minimum wage can become a living wage. Raise Basic Allowance to £12,500 in 2015. At 60 £15,500.

What is the point of NI when the state pension is morally stolen to pay for politicians to have an 11% pay rise in 2015 general election year

No pay rise for Swans candidates getting into parliament, who will also not need expenses including travel costs, done free within defence budget by military staff).

- Bring more housing into social housing and cap rents to minimum wage. Even in London.

- Each and every village, town and city will have sufficient soup kitchens, from all the free food now going to waste to landfill.

- End Landfill Tax on Rubbish Tips.

- Turn all landfill into Energy from waste businesses for new waste deposited and 'mine' buried waste for energy from burning it and gas. Cheaper Electricity.